nobility
‘honor, renown; majesty, grandeur’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. nobylitee, nobylyte, nobillitie, nobillity < O.F. nobilite ‘high rank; dignity, grace; great deed’ < Mod.F. nobilité < Lat. nobilitatem ‘celebrity, fame; high birth; excellence, superiority; the nobles’ < Lat. nobilis ‘well-known, famous, renowned; excellent, superior, splendid; high-born, of superior birth’ < gnobilis ‘knowable’ < gnoscere ‘to come to know’ < noh < gno- < Tamil kaṇ
Other meanings: Chemistry: the property of an element of being noble or relatively unreactive; Chess: the pieces other than pawns.